"I don't think very many other people have their guitars in space, so it's pretty cool," said Edwin Bond, production manager at the Larrivee factory in Vancouver, where the guitar was made.

Bond says NASA bought the guitar for the space station some years ago because of its compact size.

"Basically NASA explained their needs about wanting a small guitar [to a U.S. guitar centre that] brought our Parlor to their attention because it's an excellent example of a small Parlor guitar," said Bond.

Larrivee had stopped making that model, but now plans to bring it back into production.

Since announcing a limited run of replicas last week, the company has already taken orders worth $100,000, Bond said.

Hadfield — who has more than 800,000 Twitter followers — is credited with sparking renewed interest in space among Canadians and people all over the world.